Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses

So what's the impact of this?? The article doesn't say and now I'm really freaked out ...

there's no stopping it.

Umm...something tells me that CAN'T be good.

"Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now."

That means that we're in much worse shape that we thought. I think most of the figures and predictions are 10 to 15 years in the future, but in reality, it is happening much faster. We need action NOW!!

Million year old ice breaks off, melts, becomes flooding water that eventually evaporates. New ice won't suddenly show up to restart the process. That's it.
If you aren't doing something yet to correct this decline because you still don't believe it, you're taking the rest of us with you.
There's been enough death at the hands of fools.
Wake up!

perfectly put, huntre.

And so it begins.

I think the time is here to stop asking people nicely to change their lightbulbs. After An Inconvenient Truth and all the information that has been disseminated to the public in this country, if they can't understand the urgency yet, then it is plain to see that the majority of them are simply lazy, comfortable, selfish people who would rather sacrifice the future for their children just so they can continue to live in excess. Well said, Huntre. Simply FOOLS.

80% by 2050 is NOT enough. Hear that candidates?

Things like this keep me up at night....

well put Jan. regulation is obviously necessary. NEW RULES.

People adapt really well. Market it like a "curfew" if you must, tell them it's just for a short time, that as soon as industry figures out how to exploit solar power they can all go back to their oppulent lifestyles. People are willing to bend if it's just for a short time. And before they know it, they'll have forgotten about the days of hummers and frequent flyer miles.

Unfortunately, the response to this urgent problematic situation, which seriously began at least ten years ago, will continue to be too little too late. So, when the time comes, we will all have to be prepared for the biggest flood that any of us can imagine...know where is the high ground. The tidal waves could be enormous...any speculation on maybe 200 feet high..? Maybe higher...

We can't expect any cooperation from the present administration...too busy trying to get tat oirl...

this feels like a cancer diagnosis.

For what we've paid just on Iraq we could've built enough windmills and solar plants to power all of the US and China!

I mean, we could have actually come in and just built it for them (who would turn down that deal?). Told them to turn off their coal burning monstrosities and use wind and solar.

Of course there is hope in this, but how many times can you tell people about this and get no response? The time between movement to mitigate this and the tipping point is getting mighty close if they haven't met already.

twodee are my heroes. 'unravelling into sustainability'
bravo!

but for every one to who takes it upon himself, there are 100 who don't. So I share Jan's frustration with not seeing anything happen at the top where it needs to.

Regina - you are pretty accurate on that cancer diagnosis. Been there, done that and this does feel as over-whelming and scary as that did. Hopefully, we can treat this as successfully as my cancer was treated. A lot of us are doing what we can but until our government gets involved and does more than talk about it, we are in a bind. Even my local government is just 'talking'. It is driving me crazy. I just want to shout at them -" Quit talking and DO SOMETHING." Maye, this will motivate them.

We have been at this for a while and it does get frustrating. We have seen good friends and family turn away from us when we get too pressing on the issue. Come on too strong and people shut down fast. In the end that just does a disservice to the whole point. It is a very difficult balance. We get angry. We get outright pissed at people who should know better. We also know what we can do and decided to just go do as much as we can. We have also seen people make big changes because of what we are doing. This keeps us going.

Bravo to all of you. Even if you are shouting in the wilderness and no one hears...know that your voices are carrying on the winds of change and eventually the collective mind of man will come to its senses...where there is reason there is hope...therein lies change...

(humor me)

Fools are those who arrogantly believe that we humans have the power to alter the course our mother earth have chosen for us. She survived even larger catastrophes than what we humans can possibly concieve. Mother earth is moving to get rid of us. Fools are those who resist and fail to adapt to these rapid changes.

Punctuated equilibrium.

Hellz yeah ! i wanna be able to surf a break right off the east slope of the appalachian mts. ! how's that for adapting to climate change ?

Twodee: I have great respect for you and for what you are doing. I too have gotten my carbon footprint down tremendously and intend to keep it that way, and know others have done the same. I surely didn't mean to imply I did not. Of course there are those who are doing good things to keep up the fight as well. It is just that I do feel the urgency of this and see where we are headed unless we make drastic changes within the next five to ten years to mitigate the very worst of it. So to see people be so stubborn and arrogant to think they don't have any effect whatsoever on what is now happening just boggles my mind. Maybe the ad campaign being launched by The Alliance for Climate Protection will reach more people to bring them to a higher consciousness... Maybe all those running for office will understand then that they cannot keep pushing this aside or making goals that are illogical based on scientific models... Maybe... but until then?